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Fictional Hooper Bracket: The Round of 16
Bugs is the best bunny left in our Sweet 16...

Fictional Hooper Bracket: Venice Beach Regional - Round 2
The first round of the Venice Beach Regional went mostly according to the seedings, with an easily predicted upset (12-seed Buggs beating the 5-seed Pound in a Space Jam rematch), and one I didn’t see coming (13-seed Clarence Withers toppling 4-seed Quincy McCall). At the top of the bracket, Billy H...

<em>Space Jam 2</em> just sucks
So I saw Space Jam: A New Legacy over the weekend, and it’s just awful. Just an atrocious piece of cinema, and a blatant attempt to capture nostalgia money from fans of the original ‘90s film starring Michael Jordan. I wanted to wait until today to write anything about it though in order to get the ...

Mike … Trout? Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
Friday afternoon, Shohei Ohtani was named the American League Player of the Month for June....

Pepe Le Pew should be canceled, but Space Jam misses a huge opportunity
“Now they are canceling Looney Tunes characters!”...

What would a 1,000 mph fastball do to a person? Watch and learn (& do not try at home!)
We’ve all seen it a thousand times: a baseball player tries to field a ball, but can’t catch it and it goes rolling on the outfield grass....

That 66-Run Japanese Game: Behind The Numbers
Some further fun facts about that two-inning, 66-0 Japanese high school baseball game we wrote about yesterday:...

Those 30-Run Rallies Will Kill You Every Time
Little did you know that when you watched Maracaibo, Venezuela beat the Netherlands, 21-2 in the Little League World Series on Tuesday, that it wouldn't be the most embarrassing wipeout of week. Meet your 2007 Baltimore Orioles, who lost 30-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. For Texas, it was the...

Fever Pitch ... Throughout History
The Sporting News has a good piece about the evolution of pitching, which we read with interest until seeing the dreaded word "gyroball," which tends to provoke in us the same reaction as the word "disco." But until then there are some fun tidbits, such as the fact that until 1881, the distance from...